SystemC provides a robust set of extensions to the C++ language that enables rapid development of complex models of hardware and software systems. The authors focus on practical use of the language for modeling real systems, showing: A step-by-step build-up of syntax Code examples for each concept Updates to reflect the SystemC standard, IEEE 1666 Why features are as they are Many resource references How SystemC fits into an ESL methodology This new edition of an industry best seller is updated to reflect the standardization of SystemC as IEEE 1666 and other improvements that reflect feedback from readers of the first edition.  Meer

In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment.  Meer

Space-based superweapons and their architects, and the high-stakes politics that reined them in, are the subject of this brief book.  Meer

This book tells the fascinating story of one of Scotland’s oldest and most significant crown jewels.  Meer

This book documents and explains a recent paradigm shift in Brazil's racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades. It engages major theories in ethnoracial politics, documents an understudied empirical phenomenon, and develops a novel theoretical argument about identity politicization and the shifting dynamics of Brazilian racial politics.  Meer

In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia’s Colchis – where Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece.  Meer

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Black Bartholomew's Day is the first comprehensive study of the politicised preaching and polemical literature surrounding the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662 - a pivotal event in the history of religion in Britain -- .  Meer

Uncovering Black Heroes is a series of essays regarding real people who are not so well-known in the mainstream of American freedom and civil rights discussion.  Meer

From Roman times to the present day, this is the story of Black British history.  Meer

The acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.  Meer

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, and journalist following Appomattox.  Meer

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, years later, she's found him again. Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to the Albery Theatre in London's West End in 2006.  Meer